Posts Tagged ‘synthetic biology’
Writing for Defence Online, Dr Nicolette Moreau, Research Scientist at QinetiQ & Research Fellow at University of Bristol, examines the use of engineering biology in defence. According to The Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC), synthetic biology (or ‘synbio’) is: “the design and construction of new biological entities such as enzymes, genetic ...
Video overview: synthetic biology and beyond battery power
December 14, 2016The Defence and Security Accelerator recently opened two competitions. One is looking for highly innovative, ambitious proposals using synthetic biology approaches to produce transparent materials for defence and security. Professor Petra Oyston and Professor Bryn James explained what they were looking for: https://youtu.be/uyKm9sPavek The other competition is looking for technologies that will reliably ...
CDE themed competition: synthetic biology for transparent materials
November 2, 2016This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition is looking for highly innovative, ambitious proposals using synthetic biology approaches to produce transparent materials for defence and security. There are many military uses for transparent armour. For this competition CDE is interested in new transparent materials that are thinner, lighter and offer better ...
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